Ukraine Parliament calls to recognize Putin as war criminal and strengthen sanctions against other Russians

The Ukrainian parliament is convinced that the recent actions of the Russian Federation, which is continuing a full-scale war against Ukraine, can be regarded only as international terrorism.

The appeal was signed by the Verkhovna Rada leadership and the chairmen of parliamentary factions and groups, and expressed by the Head of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, Ruslan Stefanchuk.

Speaker Stefanchuk also stated that the regular units of the Russian Armed Forces and terrorist sabotage groups deployed in Ukraine by the Kremlin are carrying out missile attacks and shelling the civilian neighborhoods and facilities, as well as critical infrastructure in all cities of Ukraine.

He stressed that the attack on the apartment block in Kyiv at 6A Lobanovskii Street was similar to the actions of Al Qaeda terrorists who destroyed the Westgate shopping mall in New York in 2001.

The Verkhovna Rada addresses parliaments and governments around the world. "Ukraine expects support and help from you today.

We have the courage and strength of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the ordinary Ukrainians to survive, but we need action from the world," the statement says. The Verkhovna Rada calls on the EU and NATO members to close the sky over Ukraine immediately today in order to stop the terrorist attacks of the Russian occupation forces.

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